We determined the three-dimensional structure of the crust and upper mantle off the Boso Peninsula, Japan, by analyzing seismograms recorded by ocean-bottom seismometers and land stations between 2011 and 2013. We employed seismic tomography to determine the Pand S-wave velocity structures and earthquake locations simultaneously. The tomographic image shows that the mantle parts of the Pacific ...

Imaging of cellmembrane topography is important for a clear understanding of the various biological activities of cells.We propose a technique for imaging the cellmembrane topography that uses a metal-photonic crystal structure instead of a glass-water interface used in conventional polarized total internal reflection fluorescencemicroscopy (pTIRFM) techniques. Through themetal-photonic crystal...

Classical clustering algorithms as well as intrinsic evaluation criteria impose predefined structures onto a data set. If the structures do not fit the data, the clustering will fail and the evaluation criteria will lead to erroneous conclusions. Recently, the abstract U-matrix has been defined for emergent self-organizing maps (ESOM). In this work the abstract forms of the Pand the U* are defi...

s 47 Fluoride 36 (1) 2003 control (group 2). Administration of either vitamins C (50 mg/kg body weight/day), D (2 ng/0.2 mL olive oil/animal/day) or a combination of vitamins C+D+E along with NaF caused significant amelioration in body weight and feed consumption, as well as glucose, protein, sodium and potassium concentrations in the serum of Pand F(1)-generation rats compared with the NaF-onl...

Polarity changes in converted-wave images constructed by elastic reverse time migration cause destructive interference after stacking over the experiments of a seismic survey. This polarity reversal is due to PS and SP reflectivities reversing sign at certain incidence angles, e.g., at normal incidence in isotropic media. Many of the available polarity correction methods are complex and require...

In passive seismic monitoring, full wavefield imaging offers a robust approach for the estimation of source location and mechanism. With multicomponent data and the full anisotropic elastic wave equation, the coexistence of Pand Smodes at the source location in time-reversal modeling allows the development of imaging conditions that identify the source position and radiation pattern. We propose...

ACCOMPLISHMENTS (throughout the award period): We first established the model system for analyzing IgEand mast cell-dependent cutaneous allergic reactions in wild type (normal) mice of the correct genetic background (129/Sv x C57BL/6 mice), since the details of the methods needed for optimal analysis of such reactions can vary according to mouse strain. We then analyzed multiple features of IgE...

Marine seismic data from the Blake Outer Ridge offshore Florida show strong “bottom simulating reflections” (BSR) associated with methane hydrate occurence in deep marine sediments. We use a detailed amplitude versus offset (AVO) analysis of these data to explore the validity of models which might explain the origin of the bottom simulating reflector. After careful preprocessing steps, we deter...

Imaging of cellmembrane topography is important for a clear understanding of the various biological activities of cells.We propose a technique for imaging the cellmembrane topography that uses a metal-photonic crystal structure instead of a glass-water interface used in conventional polarized total internal reflection fluorescencemicroscopy (pTIRFM) techniques. Through themetal-photonic crystal...